When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.